Kids Blog : Abraham Lincolnhttp://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/tags/Abraham+Lincoln/default.aspxTags: Abraham LincolnenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)Lincoln Shot: A President's LIfe Rememberedhttp://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2008/11/29/lincoln-shot-a-president-s-life-remembered.aspxSat, 29 Nov 2008 20:43:00 GMT9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:944UndergroundLibrarian@evpl0http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=944http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2008/11/29/lincoln-shot-a-president-s-life-remembered.aspx#comments<p>This is a BIG book -- 18 inches tall and at least a foot wide, but there are only 40 pages.&nbsp; The cover looks like it&#39;s old and&nbsp;worn out, but it&#39;s really brand new.<img width="80" src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=III21&amp;Password=BT0005&amp;Return=T&amp;Type=S&amp;Value=9780312370138&amp;erroroverride=1&amp;" alt="Lincoln Shot" height="118" style="float:left;" />&nbsp; Inside, the pages look like old yellowed newspaper articles.&nbsp; We first read about Lincoln&#39;s assassination and then about John Wilkes Booth, the assassin. There are &quot;newspaper articles&quot; on the group of assassins who plotted to kill LIncoln, and what happened to them.</p>
<p>After that there is much information on Lincoln&#39;s entire life, and the progress of the Civil War.&nbsp; Page 35 has&nbsp;a sobering&nbsp;progression of photographs, showing how much Lincoln aged from 1860 to 1865.&nbsp; The last page contains the poem by Walt Whitman, <em>O Captain! My Captain!,</em>&nbsp;mourning&nbsp;Lincoln&#39;s death.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://172.16.10.20/search~S0/?searchtype=t&amp;searcharg=lincoln+shot&amp;sortdropdown=-&amp;SORT=D&amp;extended=0&amp;searchlimits=&amp;searchorigarg=tthis+is+it+s" title="Lincoln shot: A President&#39;s Life Remembered">Lincoln Shot: A President&#39;s LIfe Remembered</a></em>&nbsp;is an excellent source for finding out about Abraham Lincoln in a concise manner.&nbsp; And along the way, you will find&nbsp;historic drawings and photos, along with a few ads appropriate to the 1860&#39;s for such things as splint bottom hickory chairs and&nbsp;men&#39;s tall black hats,</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://evpl.org/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=944" width="1" height="1">Civil WarAmerican HistorypresidentsAbraham LincolnU.S. PresidentsHave You Heard This Story About Abe Lincoln ?http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2008/10/04/have-you-heard-this-story-about-abe-lincoln.aspxSat, 04 Oct 2008 17:27:00 GMT9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:682UndergroundLibrarian@evpl1http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=682http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2008/10/04/have-you-heard-this-story-about-abe-lincoln.aspx#comments<p><img width="80" src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=III21&amp;Password=BT0005&amp;Return=T&amp;Type=S&amp;Value=0375937684&amp;erroroverride=1&amp;" height="67" style="float:left;" alt="" />There&#39;s a new&nbsp;picture book&nbsp;about Abe Lincoln.&nbsp; Deborah Hopkinson has written&nbsp; <a href="http://evans.evpl.org/search/t?SEARCH=abe%20lincoln%20crosses%20a%20creek">Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek; A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend).</a>&nbsp;John Hendrix has drawn the pictures. When Abe was seven , he and his 3-years-older friend Austin&nbsp;wanted to get to the other side of Knob Creek, but the water was very high and neither one of them could swim.&nbsp; Abe dared Austin to cross on a log, and he did.&nbsp; But when Abe started across, he fell into the water, and Austin rescued him.</p>
<p>The interesting part of the book is its illustrations and the&nbsp;way Hopkinson relates the story.&nbsp; She tells it as if she is sitting next to a bunch of people, just talking to them.&nbsp; Maybe it happened this way, she says, and then again, maybe it happened this other way, and she tells both ways.&nbsp; In the meantime, John Hendrix is busily drawing each version, and often we see his hand in the bottom right corner of the page, holding a&nbsp;a paintbrush or a pencil, &nbsp;drawing the double page spread.</p>
<p>Deborah Hopkinson says there&#39;s a moral to this story, and she gives us a couple choices.&nbsp; What do you think the moral should be?</p>
<p>Would this be a good candidate for this year&#39;s Caldecott Award?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://evpl.org/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=682" width="1" height="1">picture booksAmerican HistoryAbraham Lincoln